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AUGUST 3, 2009

The firm--which was selected by a panel of judges--develops Web 2.0-style style software which helps business travelers to automatically fill out and submit expense report forms. ExpenseBay was founded by Eric Sikola.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

For today's Insights and Opinions piece, we turn again to prolific blogger and local venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners , for his insights into how a wider experience--beyond the confines of the startup world--can help you as an entrepreneur. It was an enterprise 2.0

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DECEMBER 10, 2008

Newport Beach-based CircleUp, which provides Web 2.0-style style group messaging services, said today that it has launched a new platform to help groups communicate with their members. The new platform--billed SmartMessage--helps groups send messages among members and others. Bass Associates.

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JULY 27, 2009

ExpenseBay has a software-as-a-service product which helps employees to automate the process of submitting expense reports to their employers. The service--which is similar to Web-based personal finance tools Mint and Wesabe in its use of Web 2.0

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APRIL 24, 2009

The service said that the new capability will help its users see how many matches there are, whether or not those are connected or not connected to a users. Geni's Web 2.0 The firm said that it has enhanced the ability to find duplicate profiles in the service, with automatic advanced searches when users view a profile.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web. “If There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. Helpful Resources about for Getting Referral Traffic : Top Blogs List (with email contacts). Search Engines.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

According to the BIA, it is launching a new Web 2.0 The new site is powered by icanbuy, which develops online tools for helping home owners find financing, shop for home loans, and receive a pre-qualification letter from lenders. READ MORE>>

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APRIL 9, 2009

According to Geni, the new features include the ability to look for profiles with similar names and birth and death dates, to help users find information on relatives that might have been entered by other users. Geni operates a service which lets users create their own Web 2.0-style

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Calacanis has a wealth of experience in the content world, having run technology publication Silicon Alley Reporter, which essentially profiled and tracked technology firms in New York similar to how TechCrunch has for Web 2.0 startups, and Calacanis has increasingly directed Mahalo along the path of editorial content.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Geni runs a Web 2.0-style style site to help people create family trees and connect with relatives through social networking features. In addition, the firm said it will provide advance purchase discounts to the gifts--which normally cost a $1 each--so that if users purchase 10 or 20 gifts, they get half off the price.

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MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

This kind of a simple model also helps: Define the early proof points for the company. Often, what we are trying to do initially is show exactly how these numbers play out. You only build what you need to prove that model. Great stuff. I'm sure I'll be coming back to this and pointing people to it.

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JANUARY 27, 2013

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) That helps me figure out whether they’re in my target market or if they’ve raised too much money already. The first place I go when I hear about a company is Crunchbase. It’s the Wikipedia of tech startups.

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Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: 1.) Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site. Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

. “Our collaboration with Pathbrite will provide institutions with an effective, affordable means of addressing these critical issues, all the while helping institutions improve the digital literacy skills of their students.” ” Pathbrite’s technology is providing a smarter, more flexible, and Web 2.0

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JULY 25, 2012

That popularity helped drive Instagram's recent acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion. Since my background is in environmental sciences, as well, I couldn't help noticing all of the things that hadn't been addressed properly. We think we're opening up another channel to help companies monetize.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 The firm has taken the ease-of-use, interconnectivity, and other features we take granted from modern Web 2.0 How big is the firm now?

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

We had to promise really steep service SLAs and help desk hours. This is especially problematic in the Web 2.0 / Freemium world where too many company build their business models around trying to build massive scale of free customers and then convert a small share to low monthly payments.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

I believe that when you marry the web and technology out of the game industry, you can empower people to really exploit the potential that virtual worlds have to bring people together and socialize. Raph Koster: If you think of how virtual worlds have worked, they haven't worked like the web has. That's what we're about.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do - Steve Blank , May 13, 2010 Consultants can help startups leverage their limited resources. The topic was VC signaling in seed rounds — and how these signals help or hurt your ability to raise money in the next round. they released a new 2.0 This is a great configuration for a starting team.

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JUNE 30, 2009

We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0 It's really helpful, particularly for companies who don't get social media. Our competition doesn't have that data.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

to help bloggers and blog readers with comments. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. Maybe this meme will help. Im not sure which of these make sense in what case. event I did last fall.

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MARCH 10, 2012

founder, Steve Cunningham, this is exactly the thought process he went through when developing a product to help you take in and use information faster. Cunningham’s current business, a marketing agency, Polar Unlimited in Toronto, had expanded in growth through the last decade by embracing social media and web 2.0.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

You could just sit and add people to your own family tree program, but people hadn't applied Web 2.0-style, We basically built the tool to help people stay connected, and we've been using it internally for six months. Before that, creating a family tree was a solitary activity. Now, let's talk about Yammer.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ And the fan producers all help market your show because they too want the attention.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

I hope you’ll excuse me when I do the latter in combination with the former to try and explain how I see macro trends and help you think about the mind of a VC. I learned that he was originally with William Morris as a junior talent rep but wanted to be more in the business of helping digital startups. “And importantly Web 2.0

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APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. was starting.

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JUNE 17, 2009

We caught up with Greg Brogger , the firm's CEO, to understand the service and how it might help private investors. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0 For example, in a Right of First Refusal, we explain what it is, and provide a referral to a securities law attorney to help with the process.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, That’s why we didn’t succeed.&# That’s the rationalization for the failure.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Along with Professors Thomas Pogge and Aidan Hollis, she founded Incentives for Global Health and helped produce a plan for incentivizing the development of new drugs for neglected diseases. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Alex Quilici. gigaom.com.

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JULY 15, 2009

One of the very interesting things people were doing, which is the foundation of Quub, is what we've since stated calling micropresence--providing short little bits of information to help people reading their instant messages a clue of what was happening on the other side of the instant messaging line. What's the business model behind this?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0:

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

We have a world class team that can scout out the next great companies, and we can help them as much or as little as those companies like, those we'd definitely like to take more of an active role, because this is what we know. I spent a lot of time watching the evolution of Web 1.0,

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OCTOBER 2, 2008

Then, we spoke to the firm's founder, Alex Aydin, and discovered that he wasn't just your usual Web 2.0 He wanted me to help on the financing side, so we started a company and did a few deals. It helps them, in an uncertain market, to develop what is the best available solution for themselves.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Our internal development team was busy focused on developing our core product, but I needed to develop an application with an attractive, easy to use web user interface. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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